* Rex, Jay, Jonathan, and others represent Bloominglabs at a booth at the Indy Mini-Maker Faire

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== October 2011 ==

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* That old standard, the AVR workshop

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* dosman and FOOLS make [http://hackaday.com/2011/10/07/hackerspace-competition-combines-drinking-and-lock-picking-need-we-say-more/ hack-a-day] for their lockpicking game (Steve did some programming for the scoreboard). The site buckles under the load.

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== November 2011 ==

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*Catarina Mota from NYC Resistor and Open Materials visits and tells us about interesting materials for projects. This workshop attracted some artists, and we hope to see more artists in the future.

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== December 2011 ==

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* Second Annual Holiday Mini-Workshops. Again the vacuum molder was very popular. Buddha and cellphone molds were made.

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== January 2012 ==

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* Jenett's C programming course starts

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* Annual meeting. Members make big plans and then go eat some Bar-B-Q.

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== February 2012 ==

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* Soldering workshop. This one featured kits of dosman's 'Phasor', with nice etched boards

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* Theremin building workshops with Harmony School begin. These continue through March.

Historical Document

This page is intended to document as much of our activities as possible so we can maintain a sense of history of what our group has done over time. It should be used for anything that happens outside of the Meeting_Minutes document.

July 2010

Bloominglabs is official!

Moved out of Jenett's basement and into our room at The Collaboration Room. Picked a name for our space. Formed Bloominglabs LLC and signed our lease for the room.

Held these workshops which where open to the public

Soldering

AVR programming I

AVR programming II

Arduino + RF/wireless

The Soldering workshop was our first and had 17 attendees (out of 6 RSVP's). The AVR workshops had 11 and 6 attendees respectively, and the Arduino RF workshop had 6 attendees. All went over extremely well and had very good feedback.

External Publicity

Local writer Kevin Makice wrote about The Collaboration Room and the Bloomington Hackerspace Initiative in his Wired blog Geek Dad. Member Joe Stone was at the Detroit Maker Faire the weekend of July 31st and sat on a panel about hackerspaces along with Mitch Altman.

August 2010

After the whirlwind that was July we relaxed and only held one workshop. Mitch Altman and Jimmy Rogers stopped by on August 19th to host a soldering workshop, it was another great success.